Comments on: WordPress: Could not create directory – Plugin Install Failed

By: Rômulo

Rômulo — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:07:56 +0000

I fix this issue by configuring the local ftp server write permitions

By: Nano

Nano — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:27:17 +0000

I had this problem but it was all due to wordpress being installed on a local machine. In this case a Mac running Mamp. The fix was to run this command in terminal to chown -R _www:staff wordpress

replacing wordpress with the location of wordpress installation

By: name32

name32 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:16:29 +0000

Perhaps it works, open your PHPmyAdmin,
Search in database: “path”
Browse .. match(es) inside table wp_options
Edit value : upload_url_path

By: lupee

lupee — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:37:14 +0000

Could not create directory. /home/luthfi/public_html/staractoractress.com/wp-content/upgrade/google-analytics-for-wordpress.tmp/google-analytics-for-wordpress

how do I fix??

By: Alistair

Alistair — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:55:53 +0000

Excellent, Joe! Deactivating AskApache worked for me.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:45:03 +0000

I had similar problems. After scratching my head and trying so many solutions. I remembered I had installed askapache plugin which password protects certain directories.

Soultion: Deactivate it > upgrade > Reactivate.

It worked for me…

By: MikeM

MikeM — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:50:39 +0000

I was getting this error when trying to do a full WordPress upgrade (via the dashboard).

None of the above worked for me in making that error message go away, but I discovered it worked great once I manually deleted the wp-content/upgrade directory.

Previously my ftp user had had full rwx access to this directory. I’m guessing it was left behind (with nothing in it) by a previous upgrade, and for whatever reason the mkdir logic wasn’t smart enough to notice the directory already existed. That’s just my guess, however.

By: sasha

sasha — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:28:10 +0000

I looked at this file and the lines you mention are already included.
Still I get this error and it started to occur after I installed a wordpress multisite in the root. The admin panel etc.. is up but I cant install any theme or plugin.

Before that I the latest version at its own db working just fine.
Now both of them give the error. I tried it on other domains and getting the same.

By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:46:31 +0000

I was having some issues with a host where the only way I could upload images from within WP was to have the uploads folder CHMOD to 777 which is not safe. Even more annoying, plugins were going to the uploads folder no matter how I set paths. I found an awesome plugin, WP Easy Uploader. Once this is installed, you can keep your folders locked down,not have to monkey with permissions or paths, and best of all, no longer have upload failures. I hope this helps someone.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-easy-uploader/

By: allen

allen — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:31:05 +0000

Hey oposiciones, that’s what got me going after horsing around with this problem for a while. I wonder if there’s some log or other facility that would provide some information to speed-up the process of deciphering the fact that it’s a permissions or ownership issue?